A new thing here at No Award: we’re taking it in turns to share some top Australian music on a Sunday afternoon.

(My contributions will be mostly hip hop by women, because back when Iggy Azalea was relevant, I started putting together a post about great women rappers of Australia. That was a few years ago, and I’ve gone from only having a few names in mind, to having too much music to choose from.)

“Formation” is steeped in culture and history that is not ours, and most of the links below are part of conversations that are not aimed at us. But they help to set “Formation” in context for us foreigners, to whom the work is nonetheless being marketed.